Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-10-07
COAST cuLLlNcs
Devoted Principally to Wa.h,.
Territory and California 9

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San Diego, Cal, sends a 6OoOo..
turtle to st, Louis for exhibit;on pound
Tramps burned sixty foo, !,
trestle-work on the railroad al A. las
The product of Boise basin -,
for this year, is placed at 5000 o0o slO
gold. ''0o'VV 10
The contract for $ll0,0OO ~.
house at Los Angeles, Cal, has I ~
awarded. mas been
The product of gold from tho g.
river placers in Id.ho this veo quake
reach $4,000. 'eaf will
Tom A. Metcalf, brakeman 81,
train and was instantly killed ,e,l on
Williams, A. Il. eu near
III irry Jackson, wellknow
pector, committed suicide in H. paos
Carlos Mountains. '"e Dan
The cable cars from Grass y.llau.
Nevada city, Cal, four miles, are 4s y %
run by water power. pe
N. B. Mollby committed sn;o;a.
shooting himself with gun at Ra e y
Rock, Ell Dorado county, Cal. 'p'ae
George Baccigalupi, of Santa c,.
Cal, aged 3 years, died from Nina G,sis,
received by a fall from fence. N's'
The Canadian Pacific is bav;no ~
steamers built in England to nl .4 =
tween Victoria and San Francis! W
There are now 219 patients i J.
Washington Territorial insane asynn' '
OF whom 56 are females and l63 m o,a.
Diamonds are found at nresen, !;
five counties of California, as follow.
hmador, Butte, Ell Dorado. Navas.
and Trinity. 'aua
Jake Burger accidently shot AMI
killed himself by drawing sbo,a anu
through fence while out huntna
near Glendale, w. 7.
Harry Tickle, son of Alevonao.
Tickle, who lives near Tulare, chi wss
Kicked in the stomach by horse Hs
died from the effects of the kick
The militia of Nevada have refused
to take an oath prescribed by the last
legislature, and the courts have rnles
that they cannot draw their paw.
An old man, commonly known ..
Dutch Jake, was killed at LoyalIor
Cal, by being struck over the head
with cribbage-board by Ned Kelly
blacksmith OF that place.
Clara Stark, girl of IL years was
playing around fire in a yard at
Nor,h Seattle, when her dress ipnited
and she was so badly burned before
help arrived that death resulted.
While John Flynn, fisherman, was
walking along the railroad track at
Los Angeles he was knocked down BY
a yard switch engine and instantly
killed, his body being badly mangled.
While assisting in shaking logs with
a donkey engine at the Strong creek
claim, at Rohnerville, Cal, Andrew
Maxwell was struck in the head bya
flying block, which crushed in bis
skull.
Charles Kline, young man en-
ployed in the railroad shops at Sacra
mento, was run over by the cars in the
railroad yard. He tempted to Jump
aboard a moving train, and fell off a
car and was horribly mangled.
At Los Olivas, Cal, the terminus Of
The Pacific Coast Railway, a gang Of
fifty Cinnamon attacked Yardmaster
Holt, who escaped. The infuriated
Chinese then turned on Hollis as
sistant and hacked him 50 feariully
with picks and shovels that his life is
despaired Of
General Weber, a pioneer, was found
dead in his bel at Marysville, Cal. He
bad committed suicide by morphine.
He talked of ending his life lately in
of the pain caused by
cancer which has for two years been
eating cut his tongue. The cancer
was produced by the excessive use Of
tobacco.
John Hines, a native OF ireland,
owing 10 dependency because he was
out OF work, committed suicide at San
tranci9co. The deed was performed
utter the sterotyped style. He stood
m a box, made a moose in rope,
threw 1t across a stout piece of wood,
md then adjusted it around his neck,
Kicked the box from under his feet,
md swung himself into eternity.
Andrew Ervast went out to fight fire
which was raging near San Mateo,
jal. Not returning search was made
md his body was found burned. His
lorse, near by, was also burned. It's
that he was surrounded by
ire and could not escape. He had
harge over the hume of The Spring
Valley water works, and in endeavor-
ng to save the company's property
Ost his life